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I have a great competition prize for you courtesy of Cycle Centre, a family bike shop in Newcastle. Spring is finally on it’s way and it feels like time to start getting the bikes out and taking the children further afield to explore some glorious open spaces. My girls LOVE their bikes and take every opportunity to get their helmets on and the bikes out of the shed. A trip to the Post Office, to the park, a friends house, the local shops, or just around the block, they never miss the chance to get on their bike! And now the younger one is off her stabilisers it feels like we will have the chance to do more family bike outings at weekends and in the summer holidays.
So I was thrilled when Jill and Kay at Cycle Centre offered some fab kids Crazy Stuff helmets to the Love Chic Living readers as part of this competition. Cycle Centre has been a family business since 1938 when it was owned by Jill and Kay’s grandfather, and in their own words,
“We’re still here after all these years getting more bums on saddles and kids off stabilisers. We love it.”
The guys and girls at Cycle Centre love cycling but won’t bamboozle you with science. They all enjoy cycling in their leisure time which keeps them fit and healthy, and up to date about cycling for REAL people! They are mums and dads, fair weather cyclists, hard core BMXers, mountain bikers, fixie riders and roadies. They are normal people and that’s how they know what you will need when you’re out there on 2 wheels. They really care about cycling and want to make it enjoyable for as many people as possible.
“We’ve got tonnes of bikes and bits to choose from. We know you have a choice about where to buy from and we will do what it takes to make you want to buy from us. Please give us the chance to match prices and offers from our competitors. Times are tough and we know you need to keep a tight reign on the family budget.”
And so in line with the Chic style of our blog here, I want to keep your kids looking stylish when you’re out there on your bikes.
Cycle Centre have given me these amazing Crazy Stuff Kids Helmets to give away to FOUR lucky winners! How brilliant are they? Each worth £35, your children are going to be the talk of the cycle path in these stylish animal helmets.
To be in with a chance of winning one you must do the following 2 actions:
- Leave a comment on this post telling me where you like to go for a family bike ride and
- Like the Cycle Centre Facebook page
For extra entries you can:
- Like Love Chic Living on Facebook
- Subscribe to Love Chic Living by entering your email address in the Subscribe Email box on the Homepage. Let me know if you have done either or both of these as well as the compulsory actions.
The winner will be chosen by random by Love Chic Living and announced on Facebook and Twitter. UK entries only please.
The competition closing date is: Noon on Monday 30th April 2012.
And as if that wasn’t enough, Cycle Centre is also offering you, as a Love Chic Living reader, 10% off any purchases from their website when you enter the code CHICLIVING at the checkout!! Just go to www.cyclecentreuk.co.uk to get your stylish family bikes and accessories.
Jen Stanbrook is an interiors writer, blogger and presenter, with an insatiable love of all things home. 
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We got to Bedgebury in Goudhurst it’s a fantastic place!
I have liked the Cycle Centre Facebook page – Kirsty Fox
Thanks Kirsty!
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We love to cycle along the Leeds / Liverpool Canal, Lovely countryside and no cars or big hills to worry about.
preferred bike ride is anywhere with my grandson.
have liked facebook
off to see grandson now
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Love to ride in the country park where we live
We love to go to the local pub along the canal bath.. honest its a very long ride !
I like the Cycle Centre on facebook.
I like Chic Living on Fabook as Claire Toplis
I like to go to the local park for a bike ride because it has a huge amount of green space with a few small hills.
Have liked the Cycle Centre Facebook page as Maya Russell.
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Aren’t they fabulous! Just round the local park at the moment, more practice needed! I have liked the Cycle Centre FB page and I already like the Love Chic Living FB page and subscribe by email. Many thanks and kind regards.
I would like to go on a family bike ride to Bewl Water, Kent.
Im grandad, to two lovely kids, they lovely kids, we go for lovely rides in Lee Valley Park, when they stay over
Entered on facebook by following both, by the way i cant spell, see blog reply,
We like to go on bike rides at the Brecon Beacons, 5 minutes away 🙂
Thanks for entering Meryl. I love the Brecon Beacons, just gorgeous! You are so lucky to live there 🙂
I have liked your Facebook page
herrington park
we got to the big park at the other end of town or down river banks
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We go for bike rides along the Macclesfield Canal which runs by our house and the Middlewood Way x
Liked the Cycle Centre Facebook page x
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We are lucky to live near trentham gardens & since my son has just got his first bike we will be spending a lot of time there i think 🙂
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emma walters
liked love chic living on fb 🙂
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We love to cycle along the river and farm tracks near us. Hate the roads though as they’re too busy.
Liked Love Chic Living on Facebook
Have signed up to emails.
liked both pages, subscribed and would go a bike ride to the Public Park with my daughter x
We love to ride along the canal
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tracy m hanley
We go to Dalby Forest in the North York Moors.
we love to ride bikes as a family , we like to ride down the local coutry lanes around our area , specially in the mornings when u see loads of wildlife ! liked both fb pages xx
weve never gone 4 bike rides but would love to 🙂
liked Cycle Centre Facebook page xx
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We cycle at Rushcliffe Country park – some good paths there if you have a little one on stabilisers
Wow, these are so cool. Never seen anything like them before.
We love to go for bike rides in the county park near us, its lovely.
Have liked the Cycle Centre Facebook Page.
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We love to hop on our bikes and travel just a few hundred metres from home to a local wildlife area called Wyken Slough. ‘The Slough’ is a local nature reserve, and part of the Sowe Valley Walk. It is made up of marshes, floodland and reedbeds and we take food to feed the swans, ducks and moorhens. The pool in the centre of the area is the largest expanse of water in Coventry. it is very close to the Oxford Canal and Hawkesbury Junction Conservation Area and although the area is mostly preserved with reed beds and wild grasses, there is a path all the way around the pool which is brilliant for cycling.
The local park is lovely – its got a huge lake that you can cycle round. The squirells are my favourite though! xoxo
liked cycle centre on facebook too
Liked you on fb too – DANIELLE VEDMORE xoxo
Have subscribed too! xoxo
Hello, every year we are going Austria for cycling holiday, amazing place and perfect cycling tracks for everybody, even for small kiddies.
Liked both pages
we like to ride our bikes anywhere! doesnt matter
have also done all of the above
liked and subscribed.
we all have bikes in my family so myself, my husband and our two sons, put the bikes in our car and drive to our local beach at this time of year as its deserted and cycle up and down the paths and the sand dunes.
Wow, how lovely to be able to ride amongst the sand dunes!
We love to ride around Rutland water, well some of the way around anyway
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LOL. Very Cute Helmets, so fancy.
I loved your post! It’s important to teach kids about safety, and these days there are so many cool options. I remember when StacHat bike helmets were the only option! Bright Orange or Yellow!
Cool Helmets. My kids will certainly love them.
That kid helmet is cute indeed. Effective for kids head protection during cycle riding.